Re: What happened to SOUGHT rules' server?

2010-03-15 Thread Gene Heskett
erstand your use case, so we can improve sa-update... how >is it that a failing channel is royally screwing up your SA? > >Thanks! > >Daryl > FWIW, my weekly sa-update from yerp.org also failed. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballo

Re: Most hilarious spam ever

2010-02-17 Thread Gene Heskett
gt; Yeah I got one of those last week, and it got fed to sa-learn. Havn't seen any more like it though. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Go out and tel

Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

2010-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Per Jessen wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> A lot of older people still believe that giving the PC the wrong >>>> command will cause it to explode in a shower of sparks, thanks to >>>> Hollywood. >>> >>>No age

Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

2010-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
y is not enough to go around. Like this dirtball, we haven't made any new dirt, not in big enough quantities to count since that crater near the yucatan 65 million years ago. Same for common sense. If you happen to run across some, grab it & hoard it. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four

Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

2010-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
ection that needed to be moved to the 12 volt position, fixed that, and replaced the filter, and it ran just fine in my hunting truck for as long as I owned it, another 6 or 7 years. The movie folks of course have their own definition of reality. ;-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes t

Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

2010-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
ould confirm this, but she has more respect for the lists topic, I think... Me, I get interested when the topic drifts away in my direction of knowledge. My apologies in this case would be somewhat less than sincere. Now, back to your regularly scheduled discussions. Spamassassin I believe it w

Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?

2010-02-09 Thread Gene Heskett
re sending it, and if the Subject: line is blank, it calls it to my attention & offers me a chance to fix it. Saved my bum many a time. ;) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed H

Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?

2010-02-09 Thread Gene Heskett
;DIDN'T report it!!! > >Ted > One thing I've noted Ted, is that if I have all the fonts for most of the worlds languages installed, some of that stuff then becomes visible. That of course doesn't mean I can read it, but all those pictograms from the oriental languages a

Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?

2010-02-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> Put a valid subject line required into your TOS, mail it to everybody, & >> then do it a day later, bounce it at them if no subject line content. >> They will either jump ship in which

Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?

2010-02-09 Thread Gene Heskett
e from the spam and >inserting the *SPAM* in front of the subject, that >SA stripped out all the non-text characters in the Subject >line. > > Any suggestions appreciated! (even the smart-ass ones but >they have to be clever) > >Thanks! >Ted > -- Cheers,

Re: [sa] Re: semi-legit senders in DNSWL and habeas - a hard problem

2010-01-05 Thread Gene Heskett
form-filling. Just use a >captcha to avoid poisoning :) > >- C That isn't part of their business model. These folks only think they are doing it right. Some sort of brainwashed & warped thinking they learned at the Master Bastards Association school I guess. The bottom line

Re: Latest 419 variant?

2009-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
ou I > know the time they planned to hit you, you need to reply me > immediately..you are closely monitored!!! > >The latest 419 variant? > I would spend any money I might give them on renewing my CWP. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of

Re: Dear Santa

2009-12-19 Thread Gene Heskett
ling myself & diabetes is taking its toll. But I have so many unfinished projects that if I fell over in the next year, my wife would have to hire help just to load it into the trash truck, so I don't dare go till I've finished a few of them. ;-P -- Cheers, Gene "There

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 18 December 2009, jdow wrote: >From: "Gene Heskett" >Sent: Friday, 2009/December/18 09:25 > >> On Friday 18 December 2009, Per Jessen wrote: >>>hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote: >>>> re: CP/M >>>> >>>> No S-100 bus syste

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
erating systems was >> going to be CP/M 86. > >I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the ZX80/1 yet. I've also got a >Newbrain stashed away somewhere, manuals, circuit diagrams an' all. > That's because the z-80 was only slightly less dain bramaged than the 6502.

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 18 December 2009, John Hardin wrote: >On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I got to work for several months as a bench tech for an outfit building >> the first pair of the then smallest tv cameras in the world. >> >> Later I found out that one of those

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 18 December 2009, jdow wrote: >From: "Gene Heskett" >Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 21:21 [...] > >Now, if you want to "get me rolling" about an incompetent computer >company just mention GRiD and their Compass not really a laptop computer. >Ev

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
ing except the frame rail with the serial >> number and all they managed to do was convert a daily crash >> into an every 10 minute crash. > > > >> -- >> Cheers, Gene > >wow, Gene, that is a bummer, sincerely sorry to hear about that episode... > >i was j

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
ned to nicer folks. Field office was 30 miles away in Morgantown but they often didn't show up in the same week they were called. Funny thing, the the service contract said 4 hour response. They treated us like stray dogs AFAIAC. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in d

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
There was no VT-100 for >MikroMikko available :( The BBS-systems on MS-DOS era needed one, though. > I took the os-9 version of VT-100 and with relatively little added code, made it into a VT-220 that the CBS programmed devices I was programming with it couldn't tell that it wasn

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
lle :-) Yeah, but Jerry is relatively new. I started out reading all of Doc Smiths stuff as soon as I could read, eagerly awaiting the next issue of whatever SF rag my uncle was subbed to in the early 40's, when they could find enough paper to publish it. -- Cheers, Gene "There ar

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
important step to being >numerate. You can forget actually using the slide rule. But being able >to hammer out answers on it for complex problems leads to a really good >ability to estimate answers. That way when the nice digital CPU coughs >up a digital hairball answer to a problem yo

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
ercial itself I love to remember, but really, this is off topic... -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Dave Pooser wrote: >On 12/16/09 8:20 PM, "Gene Heskett" wrote: >> I agree Benny. To demo that, I have the old coco2 that acted like a >> $20,000 dollar Grass Valley Group E-Disk for the production video >> switchers in the 300 seri

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Aaron Wolfe wrote: >On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Benny Pedersen wrote: [...] >>>kids need to know how little is needed to do simple things, and when >>>thay have seen it, thay wi

Re: Project Honeypot URLs

2009-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 December 2009, John Hardin wrote: >On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, James Butler wrote: >> Fire a photon torpedo and wait about 5 minutes to find out if you hit >> anything. > >"High Realism" mode? > Speed of light limitations you know. ;) -- Cheers, Gene &

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
from a huge lack of tlc. When someone comes over who can be impressed, I go boot the coco3 up, then come back to this linux box, and over a bluetooth serial emulation, log into it with minicom. Just to impress the frogs of course. >sorry to be OT There must be a Senor Wences line here som

Re: New image spam

2009-11-14 Thread Gene Heskett
to pass the >pastebin filters. > >Any ideas what I could be missing on catching this one? Please let me >know if I can provide any additional information. > >Thanks, >Alex > Yes, sometimes with no mention of it in the text. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be

Re: bringing clamav into the loop?

2009-10-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 31 October 2009, jdow wrote: >From: "Gene Heskett" >Sent: Saturday, 2009/October/31 13:10 > >> On Saturday 31 October 2009, Karl Pearson wrote: >>>On Sat, October 31, 2009 7:16 am, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> Greetings; >>>>

Re: bringing clamav into the loop?

2009-10-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 31 October 2009, Karl Pearson wrote: >On Sat, October 31, 2009 7:16 am, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> Does anyone have a procmail recipe that incorporates clamav into the >> checks, >> and one that handles the clamav output to /dev/null the

Re: bringing clamav into the loop?

2009-10-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 31 October 2009, jdow wrote: >From: "Adam Katz" >Sent: Saturday, 2009/October/31 10:50 > >> Yet Another Ninja wrote: >>> On 10/31/2009 2:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> This looks like what I had in mind. But since I don't have that

Re: bringing clamav into the loop?

2009-10-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 31 October 2009, jdow wrote: >From: "Gene Heskett" >Sent: Saturday, 2009/October/31 06:16 > >> Greetings; >> >> Does anyone have a procmail recipe that incorporates clamav into the >> checks, >> and one that handles the clamav output t

Re: outlook 2007 "Test" email scores 30+

2009-10-31 Thread Gene Heskett
ning, that site is still checking >blacklist.spambag.org, which has been offline since 2007 and now lists >the entire Internet. > That reduces my addresses hit count to 3 obviously. Thanks for the heads up, Bart. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: s

Re: bringing clamav into the loop?

2009-10-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 31 October 2009, Adam Katz wrote: >Yet Another Ninja wrote: >> On 10/31/2009 2:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> This looks like what I had in mind. But since I don't have that part >>> checked out yet, would it then delete the mail because clamdscan ha

Re: outlook 2007 "Test" email scores 30+

2009-10-31 Thread Gene Heskett
P address and lets you check it >against DNSBLs: > >http://cqcounter.com/rbl_check/ Interesting. I run a very small web page at http://gene.homelinx.net:85/gene and I suppose because I am in a dynamically assigned IP address range (verizon adsl), I find I am on 4 of those lists. Probabl

Re: bringing clamav into the loop?

2009-10-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 31 October 2009, Yet Another Ninja wrote: >On 10/31/2009 2:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 31 October 2009, Yet Another Ninja wrote: >>> On 10/31/2009 2:16 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> Greetings; >>>> >>>> Does anyone ha

Re: bringing clamav into the loop?

2009-10-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 31 October 2009, Yet Another Ninja wrote: >On 10/31/2009 2:16 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> Does anyone have a procmail recipe that incorporates clamav into the >> checks, and one that handles the clamav output to /dev/null the viri etc? >

Re: bringing clamav into the loop?

2009-10-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 31 October 2009, Michael Scheidell wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> Does anyone have a procmail recipe that incorporates clamav into the >> checks, and one that handles the clamav output to /dev/null the viri etc? > >amavisd handles both

bringing clamav into the loop?

2009-10-31 Thread Gene Heskett
k. Thanks everybody. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-m

Re: Pulling my hair out

2009-10-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote: >On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 01:34 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote: >> >[getmail] does the same job as fetchmail, but without some of the bugs >> > and with better documentati

Re: Pulling my hair out

2009-10-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote: >On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 17:53 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >Slightly off-topic interjection, though it may help other fetchmail >users. > >> What can I use to replace fetchmail with then? > >getmail > >> Fetch

Re: Pulling my hair out

2009-10-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>> Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> Since your not the recipient mailserver, (your upstream server is) and >>

Re: Pulling my hair out

2009-10-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: [...] >Since your not the recipient mailserver, (your upstream server is) and >I presume that your upstream is NOT running SA or doing any filtering >(otherwise you are effectively wearing 2 condoms, on on top o

Re: Pulling my hair out

2009-10-19 Thread Gene Heskett
r message before you can actually see the message? >If you want to use SpamAssassin I would suggest you find an ISP in your >area that provides mailboxes that are scanned by SpamAssassin. And >by the way, Thunderbird has nothing to do with SpamAssassin, and people >can access SpamAssassin

Re: KHOP_NO_FULL_NAME

2009-10-18 Thread Gene Heskett
online stalking incident >I expect people will forgive me for simply going by the four letters >phonetically rendered as "Jolly Dirty Old Woman." > >{^_-} > Wouldn't have it any other way my dear (on a public list anyway), unless it might be the 'wizardess'. But t

Re: Constant Contact

2009-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
anywhere else, but as it's being discussed here - I'm guessing >somewhere in SA something is 'greasing the wheels' for them. > >The crux is this - they emit a constant stream of trash that would be >rightly blocked if it were not whitelisted - so whitelisting them is >

Re: Constant Contact

2009-10-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 October 2009, R-Elists wrote: >> That domain name should earn an email that came through their >> servers an additional 2.5 points IMO. It has been a thorn in >> my side since 3, maybe 4 years now. > >snip > >> -- >> Cheers, Gene > >Gene,

Re: Constant Contact

2009-10-16 Thread Gene Heskett
mail that came through their servers an additional 2.5 points IMO. It has been a thorn in my side since 3, maybe 4 years now. >(Note, questionable custom rules like this get tested on my production >servers with near-zero scores, then real scores, and /then/ they find >their way t

Re: Non scoring 'Bank Deposit' spam

2009-09-14 Thread Gene Heskett
I'm going to lose *so* much sleep about that. From what I have >> read, the majority of you are a bunch of gay arse lovers up eachother. >> And fuckwits too boot. >> >> I hope you die ejaculating up each others arse holes. > >So how far does someone have to go be

Re: Checking external mail

2009-09-05 Thread Gene Heskett
0530 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I believe you intended this to go to the spamassassin list, not to me privately? In any event, I will be little or no help. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be u

Re: gpgkey failures with sa-update [fixed, thanks]

2009-09-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 02 September 2009, Mark Martinec wrote: >Gene, > >> But, I had installed all the perl stuff that a spamassassin -D --lint run >> had complained about, and I just noted in the email sa-update sent me >> that 3 more bits of perl were on the missing list, and th

Re: gpgkey failures with sa-update [fixed, thanks]

2009-09-01 Thread Gene Heskett
or I should install it with cpan??? Yumex is adamant that there is not such a beast. Thanks -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate mem

Re: gpgkey failures with sa-update

2009-08-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Toni Mueller wrote: >Hi, > >On Wed, 19.08.2009 at 13:33:20 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> In /var/lib/sa/keys > >I have neither such a directory, nor any keys in either of > >/var/lib/spamassassin nor /var/db/spamassassin (depending on whic

Re: gpgkey failures with sa-update

2009-08-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Toni Mueller wrote: >Hello, > >On Wed, 19.08.2009 at 12:09:43 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >> >[2] http://taint.org/2007/08/15/004348a.html >> >> This site has the procedu

Re: gpgkey failures with sa-update

2009-08-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >> > General advice: Post the error messages. Do a debug run. Post the >> > relevant parts of the debug info. >> > >> > Gene -- with your headstrong, infamous around here user setup, you >> > sh

Re: gpgkey failures with sa-update

2009-08-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >> >On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 06:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> One of the channels I use, yerp, has a failing gpg key despite my >> >> importation of that key. Several times. > >On 18.08.09 21:4

Re: gpgkey failures with sa-update

2009-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 18 August 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 06:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> One of the channels I use, yerp, has a failing gpg key despite my >> importation of that key. Several times. >> >> How should I proceed? > >General advi

gpgkey failures with sa-update

2009-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; One of the channels I use, yerp, has a failing gpg key despite my importation of that key. Several times. How should I proceed? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed H

Re: Error msgs Q

2009-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 August 2009, John Hardin wrote: >On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: >> How can I make it verbose enough to tell me which 'channel' is failing >> the check? > >Run sa-update in debugging mode with -D Thank you, I'll do that. -- Cheers, Gene

Error msgs Q

2009-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
have pulled the gpg keys for each of the 3 channels repeatedly, trying to fix this error. How can I make it verbose enough to tell me which 'channel' is failing the check? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo

Re: Lotto/Money & email address spam

2009-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
org >>>saupdates.openprotect.com >>> >>> channels.txt to the sa-update as a parameter. >> >> I've set mine up like that, but I'm having key problems. >> As gene, I have repeatedly used wget to pull the keys, >> and sa-update --IMPORT key

Re: Lotto/Money & email address spam

2009-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
ate channels.txt file. > >My channels.txt > >updates.spamassassin.org >sought.rules.yerp.org >saupdates.openprotect.com > >channels.txt to the sa-update as a parameter. I've set mine up like that, but I'm having key problems. As gene, I have repea

Re: Newly made warning from saupdate

2009-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Bowie Bailey wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Bowie Bailey wrote: >>> make sure that you are running sa-learn as the same user SA is running >>> as. A classic mistake is to run SA as one user and then run sa-learn as >

Re: Newly made warning from saupdate

2009-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Bowie Bailey wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Bowie Bailey wrote: >>> If permissions are 0700 and sa-update cannot read the directory, then >>> sa-update is not running as the user "saupdate". Double-check which

Re: Newly made warning from saupdate

2009-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Bowie Bailey wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Sebastian Wiesinger wrote: >>> * Gene Heskett [2009-07-21 14:11]: >>>> The gist is: >>>> gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `/var/lib/spamassassin/

Re: Newly made warning from saupdate

2009-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Sebastian Wiesinger wrote: >* Gene Heskett [2009-07-21 14:11]: >> The gist is: >> gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `/var/lib/spamassassin/keys' >> >> And ls -l returns: >> [r...@coyote linux-2.6.30.2]# ls -l /var/lib/sp

Newly made warning from saupdate

2009-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
ls -l /var/lib/spamassassin total 16 drwxr-xr-x 3 saupdate saupdate 4096 2009-07-21 02:45 3.002005 drwx--x--x 2 saupdate mail 4096 2009-07-21 02:45 keys So what should the perms be on this directory? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and

Re: Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-15 Thread Gene Heskett
f course wind its way back to SCOTUS if they take it. If they reject it, this lower court ruling will stand. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is

Re: perms problems galore

2009-07-04 Thread Gene Heskett
sa-update.dostech.net >70_sare_adult.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net >90_2tld.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net > >They never seem to update, however. Am I doing something wrong? Are there >others I should consider? > >Thanks, >Alex > >On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: and sn

Re: perms problems galore

2009-07-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 04 July 2009, Matt Kettler wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Ok, I'll fix that, thanks. >> >>> That said, why give the saupdate user the ability to add keys at all? >>> Import them as root and only give the saupdate user read access. >> >

Re: perms problems galore

2009-07-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 July 2009, Matt Kettler wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings all; >> >> I _thought_ I had sa-update running ok, but it seemed that the >> effectiveness was stagnant, so I found the cron entry that was running >> as-update & discovered a synt

perms problems galore

2009-07-03 Thread Gene Heskett
x27;: Permission denied -- What do I need to open that up to? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate membership

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-12 Thread Gene Heskett
ands of customers's account info on it and no >encryption. This has been demoed very well, but without near enough ink from the MSM. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed H

Re: Restarting bayes

2009-05-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 02 May 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Saturday 02 May 2009, Theo Van Dinter wrote: >>bayes_seen is rather irrelevant. > >To this problem, or generally? > >>bayes_toks is very binary-oriented, and uses lots of pack() calls. >> >>There is no SA-based &q

Re: Restarting bayes

2009-05-02 Thread Gene Heskett
ched, and if possible tell me whats wrong if it is. I am probably complicating the issue in that the attached script is run every morning at 10am to process the ham/spam I have dragged and dropped into the correct folders. This is because I run as root, but all mail fetching and processing is

Re: Restarting bayes

2009-05-02 Thread Gene Heskett
ete/move the DB file before >restoring, c) make sure the data you're restoring is valid (gigo and >all that). > >On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> 1. The suggestions to rebuild the bayes db didn't make any difference. >

Restarting bayes

2009-05-02 Thread Gene Heskett
, OTOH, is inscrutable. and over 2 megabytes. Is there a way to check this bayes_toks file for validity, & maybe even fix it, or should I just nuke all bayes_* and retrain? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Pleas

Re: Looks like sa-learn --spam troubles

2009-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 May 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 11:23 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> bayes: unknown packing format for bayes db, please re-learn: 73 at >> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm line >> 1883. >> >

Re: Looks like sa-learn --spam troubles

2009-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
't help, maillog is still about 2 screens full of this error for every message processed. Next? Thanks. >On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> The error: >> bayes: unknown packing format for bayes db, please re-learn: 73 at >> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_per

Re: Looks like sa-learn --spam troubles

2009-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
. > >You can try to do a dump/verify/restore ... ala: > >sa-learn --sync >sa-learn --backup > db-dump >vi db-dump [... make sure things look as expected, etc ...] >[... backup your db, however appropriate, depending on your setup ...] >sa-learn --restore db-dump > &g

Looks like sa-learn --spam troubles

2009-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
seems to be repeated at about 3x for every spam I put in the spam folder. Obviously someone has figured out a way to poison the bayes_db. Is there a fix? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order.

Re: sa-learn

2009-04-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 April 2009, alexus wrote: >On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:03 PM, alexus wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Tuesday 21 April 2009, alexus wrote: >>>>On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Gene Heskett >>> >>&

Re: sa-learn

2009-04-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 April 2009, alexus wrote: >On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 20 April 2009, alexus wrote: >>>i'm trying to teach my SA whats spam >>> >>>it's a brand new out of box SA, i have few domains that i dont g

Re: sa-learn

2009-04-20 Thread Gene Heskett
the spam that does get through goes into a spam dir, and a cron job learns it, then deletes it daily. I'm lazy, and repetitive tasks are to be done by a cron fired script around this camp. :) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury,

Re: "This is your" spam

2009-03-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 28 March 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote: >On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 10:36 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 28 March 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote: > >[snippage] > >> >Total mail 2968 messages >> >Spam198 messages >> &g

Re: "This is your" spam

2009-03-28 Thread Gene Heskett
: > >Total mail 2968 messages >Spam 198 messages >MG_LIVESP 91 hits >MG_LIVESF 22 hits How did you generate this report? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. -- Henry David Thoreau

Re: Something doofuzzled in a * ^To: line.

2009-02-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Chris wrote: >On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 12:47 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I never claimed to understand regex's. I know the ^ anchors the start of >> the search to the start of the line, and that the first * is needed to >> into a recipe,

Re: Something doofuzzled in a * ^To: line.

2009-02-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 01:08 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 24 February 2009, SM wrote: >> > You could add a rule to catch the "no To-header" comment. >> >> Humm, if it can't find the u

Re: Something doofuzzled in a * ^To: line.

2009-02-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 February 2009, SM wrote: >At 22:08 23-02-2009, Gene Heskett wrote: >>Not that I know of. Fetchmail occasionally squawks about a race in the >>PEEK_MSG function, maybe a couple times a day. ~/.procmailrc has no such >>edit line in it. Obviously it did com

Re: Something doofuzzled in a * ^To: line.

2009-02-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 February 2009, SM wrote: >At 18:38 23-02-2009, Gene Heskett wrote: >>The input line looks like this: >> >>To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)@gmail-pop.l.google.com > >Is your MTA or POP3 client adding the @gmail-pop.l.google.com at the >

Re: Something doofuzzled in a * ^To: line.

2009-02-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 23 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > > [...] by doing a copy/paste from the kmail displayed line when in >> > > show all headers mode. > >On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 18:52 -0500, The

Re: Something doofuzzled in a * ^To: line.

2009-02-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 23 February 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote: >On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 17:55 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Anybody got an idea how the spammers have managed that? > >Sorry, I can't help with the invisible stuff, but I do know a little > >about the other part of your q

Re: Something doofuzzled in a * ^To: line.

2009-02-23 Thread Gene Heskett
ted' bit. >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> I've had zip luck getting a trigger line based on Undisclosed >>> Recipients:, or Unlisted Recipients: here, so I called up my .procmailrc >>> and tried to enter the check phrase by

Something doofuzzled in a * ^To: line.

2009-02-23 Thread Gene Heskett
body got an idea how the spammers have managed that? And better yet, how to defend against it as I'd like to /dev/null any message with an unlisted header. Thank you for any insight offered. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, an

Re: cpan question

2009-02-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 February 2009, Bill Landry wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Using cpan, trying to install Net::Ident (the other bits except razor were >> nominal from the same source) >> >> Checking for Apache.pm... not found >> Writing Makefile for Net::Ident >

Re: Missing pieces of perl?

2009-02-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >> > > drwx-- 2 gene mail 4096 2009-02-21 10:17 >> > > /etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-update-keys >> > >> > >> > Yup, as I expected. :) Err, remembered from previous dis

Re: Missing pieces of perl?

2009-02-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 12:10 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 21 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >> > > [28466] dbg: diag: module not installed: Net::Ident ('require' failed) >> > &

Re: Missing pieces of perl?

2009-02-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 11:46 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 21 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >> > On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 10:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > > I have also fed probably 10

Re: Missing pieces of perl?

2009-02-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 11:20 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 21 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >> > > gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on homedir >> > >> > ls -ld /etc/mail/spamass

Re: Missing pieces of perl?

2009-02-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 February 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 10:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> From an sa-update -D: > >According to a quick grep, initially to verify my recollection of the >IP::Country usage, turns out I did remember correctly...

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